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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Have you considered voluntary redundancy?

No.

Have you considered involuntary redundancy?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I really should switch to Graphene

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.

What about full application backups? I've got a few offline apps, I'd like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to "approved" this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)... I don't recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

my bank app is specificially listed as working but i would def check

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What’s making you choose Graphene?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 100 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine all of this talent going to work for grapheneOS and/or hardware company willing to make a phone with grapheneOS as its OS.

[–] FreeBooteR69 64 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'd rather see phones with Ubuntu Touch, PostMarketOS, and Mobian OS's.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

i will second this too!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’m ready for Linux-phone, but maybe GraphineOS is my gateway. I’m tired of my iPhone not doing the things it should.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

it is also doing a lot of shit it shouldn't ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've been trying to take ownership of my data and simplify my digital life. The greatest barrier to this by far is Apple/iOS.

Sure am glad I picked that walled garden 15 years ago, when I was none the wiser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I have to use an iPhone for work and I don't understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that's before data fuckery.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I don't work for Google. I'm but a voluntary ~~product~~ customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I'd gladly take it.

Right now I'm moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

That's the other rub...if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

(I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers...only reason I'm considering Oracle is because they give so much free "forever". And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the "free "forever"" offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I replaced most cloud services with my own Nextcloud instance. I like Nextcloud.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I'm in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays

[–] avidamoeba 47 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.

At least there's some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn't change much of course.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's still just an excuse to pad profits.

[–] avidamoeba 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 12 hours ago

Did they title the offer "Fork in the Road," too?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Is that where they put a loaded gun on the table and then turn around?